Black Ice

Expanded and revised edition of the pioneering work of history about the Colored Hockey League, founded in Halifax, NS. Now a documentary film.

The Colored Hockey League of the Maritimes was formed in 1895 in Halifax, Nova Scotia, twenty-five years before the Negro baseball leagues in the United States, and twenty-two years before the birth of the National Hockey League.

The Colored League would emerge as a premier force in Canadian hockey and supply the resilience necessary to preserve a unique culture that exists to this day. Unfortunately the league's contributions were conveniently ignored, or simply stolen, as white teams and hockey officials appropriated elements of the Black players' style or sought to take credit for Black hockey innovations.

This revised and expanded twentieth-anniversary edition of Black Ice remains the only book ever written on the history of the Colored Hockey League. A powerful read, this edition features newly uncovered research and historic documentation on the history of the Colored Hockey League, Black hockey from the 1920s through to the mid-1950s, as well as previously undocumented efforts to create a professional Black hockey team to compete for the Stanley Cup.

Black Ice: 20th Anniversary Edition is an important book that rewrites Canadian and American hockey history for a whole new generation.